Originally posted by One Bad Pig
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I'll start the first one : in ... I do not find the reference I recalled.
In what I recalled, the council of 869 had been accepted by Rome, rescinded by Pope Zachary when Photius asked for it, and then that of 879 had been held.
It seems that must have been some spoof, since Pope Zachary was already deceased by then.
Curiously, I had found that story on an orthodox resource, around the time when I was going to the Roumanian Orthodox Church in 2006.
So, I will take next on the list:
He believed in Original Sin? Damnation of unbaptised infants? So did Gregory Palamas and Avvakum.
Kucharek states that "the great St Gregory Palamas himself (d.1359) believed that Mary was purified from the very first of her existence." Kucharek also states that the Greek Orthodox Church belief of the Immaculate Conception until the 15th century only began to change wherein Greek theologians began to propose the idea of Mary being only made immaculate at her Annunciation. But belief in the Immaculate Conception in eastern Slavs was undisturbed until the late 17th century when the Skirzhal (Book of Laws - also spelled Skrigeal due to problems of translating Cyrillic alphabet to Latin alphabet) appeared in Russia, and proposed what the Slavs considered as a "novel doctrine" of the Greeks (ie that the Theotokos was purified at the Annunciation).
Not quite the one, no ...
That's why I was fascinated to discover that St. Gregory Palamas, the 14th century bishop who is the rallying point for theologians crying "Difference!" to the West, was substantially influenced by St. Augustine. This fact was obscured by Palamas' failure to attribute his quotes, but there are substantial passages from the Chapters which are identical or nearly identical with passages from the Greek translation of De Trinitate, written by St. Augustine. See the article by Flogaus in Orthodox Readings of Augustine, published by St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.
(Here we are)
He believed in filioque? So did St Athanasius, St Hilary, St Gregory and St Augustine (whom Photius counted as "ho en tois hagiois Aougoustinos" in Vivlijothiki).
That St Augustine believed filioque, I don't think you dispute. Searching Photius Bibliotheca, bbl.
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